I recently attended a Rural Professionals Seminar on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions on New Zealand Farms. This seminar covered the science behind GHG emissio...

Chloride is an essential nutrient that all plants and animals require. It’s extremely well recycled in the environment and as such it’s rare to see chloride ...

Pasture sampling for summer is underway, so here’s three good reasons why knowing what’s happening with your pasture is so important. A single composite past...

A client posed a question this week when we were discussing fertiliser options. He said, “I can buy a heck of a lot of magnesium oxide to su

Starting spring with more confidence that milk fever was under control ensured Craig & Alice Knowles got some decent sleep during calving. Craig milks 240 cr...

I went to a DairyNZ field day last week where the results of an investigation into feed conversion efficiency were presented. Some animals just manage to ach...

It must be spring. Cows are calving, ewes are lambing and Doug Edmeades has had his annual rant at the “pseudo-science” of Albrecht ratio th

Last month Fonterra announced a 65% jump in its organic milk price for the 2016/17 season in response to worldwide rising demand for the “pure” white stuff. ...

Two weeks ago the local Liquorland billboard said “It’s a great winter we’re having this spring”. Thankfully now in the second week of October the grass is g...